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Crataegus aprica is a representative of the large and still imperfectly 
known Flavae Group, distinguished by its few-flowered corymbs, con- 
spicuously glandular like the cuneate leaves; usually twenty stamens, 
rose-colored or yellow anthers, and usually zigzag often pendulous 
branches. The species are usually trees but occasionally shrubs, fifteen 
being admitted into Sargent’s New Manual of the Trees of North 
America. The plants of this Group are confined almost exclusively to 
the southeastern states from southwestern Virginia to central Florida 
and southern Alabama. They occur in eastern Mississippi, and one spe- 
cies grows near the banks of the Mississippi River near Bayou Sarah, 
Louisiana, the most western station known for any species of the Group. 
The species are most abundant in the lower parts of the states of 
South Carolina and Georgia and in northern Florida, but a few species 
occur on the Appalachian Mountains up to altitudes of about three 
thousand five hundred feet. Most of the high country species are estab- 
lished in the Peter’s Hill Group and six or seven of them have flowered 
sparingly during the past week. The best known in the Arboretum, C. 
aprica, was first raised here in 1876 from seed presented by Asa Gray 
as C. coccinea, the name usually applied in those days to most Ameri- 
can Hawthorns. This is the most northern species of the Group and 
appears to ascend to higher altitudes than any of the others. The 
branches are less zigzag than in most of the species, and the flowers 
have only ten stamens with yellow anthers. The fruit is subglobose, 
often slightly hairy at the ends and dark orange-red. C. aprica is a 
tree occasionally twenty feet tall with a trunk from six to eight inches 
in diameter, covered with deeply furrowed and scaly bark, and spreading 
branches forming an open head. C. aprica is not one of the handsom- 
est or a typical species of the Group but its hardiness makes it a good 
representative of the Flavae in northern collections in which most of 
the other species grow badly even if they grow at all. The old plant of 
C. aprica on the bank near the Forest Hills Gate is not flowering this 
year but there are flowers on the younger plants in the Peter’s Hill 
Group. 
Lonicera Morrowii has been growing in the Arboretum since 1884 
and is now only mentioned here in order to call attention to the remark- 
able groups of the plants of this species near the crossing in Franklin 
Park, Boston, of the park drive and the traffic road which divides the 
park from north to south. In these groups the plants now covered 
with flowers are from twenty-five to thirty feet in diameter and eight 
or ten feet high and are round-topped and perfect in shape with lower 
branches spread out over the ground. Lovers of handsome hardy shrubs 
will be well repaid by a visit to these remarkable shrubs. Lonicera 
Morrowii is offered for sale by several American nurseries, but these 
nursery plants raised from seeds usually prove to be hybrids of L. 
Morrowii and L. tartarica with upright branches, greener leaves and 
smaller flowers, and as compared with the Siberian and Japanese plant 
now to be seen in Franklin Park of little value. Loniceras, or many 
of them, hybridize freely and only plants raised from cuttings can be 
depended on. 
